It hasn’t always been like that though and the reality is that we still need to be patient regarding many things. That’s why the saying that, ‘patience is a virtue’, is as real today as it’s ever been. In many ways, even more so.

The first one, as you can see from the heading, is an encouragement for those of us who are no longer ‘spring chickens’, as they say. To enforce the practicality of the message, I recorded it yesterday evening just before I went to play football.

While Storm Chandra manifested itself with 40 mph+ winds and driving rain, the birds were singing as if it were the height of summer. Whatever was going on around them them was of no concern. They just carried on doing their thing.

Life isn’t always plain sailing. What seems like a simple day ahead can often become a long-winded and complicated one. It may even stretch beyond the period of twenty-four hours and seem to go on forever. Eventually though, we get there. That’s the gist of today’s Wednesday Words of Wisdom. We always get there in…

It’s the same as when we are trying to shake something off in our life but it still stubbornly hangs on. It just doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. That’s when we need perseverance to run the race successfully.

We’ve all heard the saying that something bad which happened was ‘a blessing in disguise’. There are probably numerous examples from our own life that we could use to illustrate the point.

As always, we attempt to keep the messages both relevant to everyday life and topical and that’s certainly the case today as well. Christmas is behind us and, although we still have the New Year to look forward to, in no time at all that will also be in the past.

I’ve been very blessed this week (on Monday just gone, to be precise) to have celebrated my first year of retirement.

I’m sure that most people – if not all of us to some degree – have been in the position where we have been hurt by another, and the reaction has been to pull up the drawbridge, and to cut ourself off from everyone.

The passage of scripture (there’s always a biblical foundation to the message) comes from Luke 7, where the ‘sinful woman’ shed tears on the feet of Jesus and wiped them with her hair.